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by ImPostingOnHN 66 days ago
> But if far right parties are gaining votes

Which votes are those again? In the USA, which we're talking about here.

If refusing to patronize 1 nazi means the far right gets more voters, we would expect to see that in USA election results over the last year or so.

Fortunately, this hypothesis is not borne out in the data. In fact, I'd say your purported correlation is inverted, but I suspect there is a deeper, correlated variable: "doesn't like nazis" -> ( "doesn't vote for nazis", "doesn't patronize nazis" ).
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temp8830 59 days ago
We must be looking at different data. Most of Europe has seen a significant increase in far right support. Italy, France, Germany. And in the US, like it or not, there are people who feel represented by the MAGA movement. And last I checked - they managed to elect a president who invented this acronym.

Pretending these people don't exist might feel nice but ignore them at your peril. If this is what "Nazis don't vote" looks like - what would it look like when they start?

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